Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2020

Of that, $10 billion will go toward solar and energy storage projects designed to make grids more resistant to climate-related catastrophes like extreme weather events, wildfires and other disasters. “Startups and small businesses are the engine of every local and regional economy,” writes Peterson.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2014

Noted American architect Frank Lloyd Wright famously cautioned his design disciples that form should not compromise function. However, for many online startups, form should drive the design process. I hesitate to write about design, as I have never considered myself to be a "color or font" person. Share and Enjoy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Today Upfront Ventures is announcing that we’ve backed Rebecca Kantar ’s startup Imbellus , a company designed to assess human potential and ultimately change the way we teach children. Inevitably as a society we began “teaching to the tests” and we design curricula around proficiency in these basic skills. So Why Imbellus?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. In today’s market, so much focus is placed on transacting business online. 10) Rob, why does the world need RingRevenue? . “In

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

I’m generally not a believer in too much PR until you have a product built or at least well designed. This is somewhat changing in the world of crowd funding where people actually raise money so that they can build products but at a minimum your product design ought to be complete and ready to execute.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

His challenge is to focus on one market, with a specific design, cost, and price. Bill was initially the idea person and technologist, while Steve had the business and marketing experience from Proctor & Gamble to close the business equation. For example, I have a friend with a Ph.D. Yes, there are a lot of bridges to cross.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Yet, in the interest of full disclosure, and an honest intent to save future entrepreneurs some grief and money, I would remind you that starting any business has key dependencies on at least five major elements, including product design and delivery, the right people on the team, adequate funding, a sizable market opportunity, and marketing.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Then fans would be tasked with writing their own stories, submitting them to the Realms of Ruin universe by minting them as NFTs on the Solana blockchain. If the authors are inviting fans to write fan fiction about a universe they created, who owns the derivative works?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 14, 2013

The online market is a great place to launch a new fashion brand. It allows your products to be available to the international fashion market and an online launch can be done for much less money than opening a traditional brick and mortar store. All of the e-commerce setup and marketing have already been done.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. The funding rounds will also build customer confidence and they’ll help journalists feel air cover in writing your more important pieces when you brag about customers, traction, revenue or whatever. This is true on all of the major tech blogs. Funding is news.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2010

I stumbled upon the Question, “ What-is-the-motivation-behind-writing-public-reviews-and-tips-as-on-Amazon-Yelp-Foursquare-StickyBits-etc &# and took the bait. Or let’s face it – writing lots of answers on Quora. Design the product to accomodate needs of all three. Don’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

Kara on one side of the table showing me market sizes, competitive dynamics, product roadmaps, pricing plans for physical products with COGS and gross margins. Showing me designs. She helps write press releases. She talks about creative design of websites and physical products – in our case – stickers.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2013

If you are a millenial entering the workforce, what would you be most comfortable with -- a tool designed to work and look like a social network, or a tool built around an old fashioned corporate enterprise software UI? She said that PromoJam is looking to "democratize enterprise social marketing" with the new turnkey system.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Not too many people are aware of the success and story of Lynda.com (www.lynda.com), started by Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin , and how the firm's now grown to a double-digit, multimillion dollar business which is known as THE source for online training on such things as web design, graphics software, animation, video editing, and much more.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Gogii spent way more effort marketing to what I call “The USA Today market&# rather than the tech blog market. You fish where your customers are.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. When should you start a company?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 16, 2010

In the first part of the presentation we will be focusing on the changes made to the phone itself, discussing the design decisions and integrated experiences that are part of its infrastructure. We will end with a discussion of the Market place and a QandA session.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 7, 2019

I think in this age and time, that’s not what we want to get into,” Xinjie Ma, who heads up marketing for rct, told TechCrunch. “We appreciate a lot the support and opportunities given by Baidu and during the years we have grown up dramatically,” said Ma, who previously oversaw marketing at Raven.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So why is online video such an attractive market to build a startup? These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. But a market in which every network competes to sign up the largest talent by throwing rev share deals at them is also stupid.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

You likely are writing your first one of these. You might also have a business plan, marketing plan, financials, competitor analysis or other kinds of background document. Send across any graphic designs you currently have. So, I promised this founder to do a post talking about how you go about create specifications of your MVP.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

Fred talks about it here – he beat me to the punch because I always wanted to write about how awesome this is. If I’m totally honest it started as a marketing exercise. The design, albeit not intuitive at first, was beautiful and in weird ways very graceful. It’s an awesome implementation. Quora “Lite&#.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

This acquisition resolved the surgical robotic IP landscape and allowed Intuitive to dominate the market. Even if your company is not acquired and you elect to access the public capital markets via an IPO, the above tenets remain valid. Design patents make up the majority of non-utility patents.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Although the first draft of this post began when Kluge was a proud member of NextSpace; as of this writing we have moved to a bigger office to accommodate our expanding team. Amplify’s portfolio companies are schooled on every challenge they need to master in order to achieve success.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

And after one meeting they started asking for his advice about marketing, customer engagement, product design, monetization – whatever. When you see pitch after pitch – what works and what doesn’t – you start to get a sense of patterns of business model approaches, go-to-market strategies and the like.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

By Mahesh Raj Mohan Writing a business plan can be a difficult process. you still have to write the plan for a particular audience. Your business plan’s writing style should take their preferences into account. So what writing styles should you use for these very different audiences? Hi, I’m writing this plan because.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

The mistake entrepreneurs make is either writing a lengthy email (everybody has too much email so it will get skimmed / not digested) or not having a deck which means the VC can’t quickly determine his or her fit as a potential investor. The key is WHAT you send. Compelling. But what about the privacy / confidentiality concern? Poppycock.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I had my own list on my iPhone, writing down what I wanted to watch, and where those shows are. We did a lot of testing before we actually started designing and building Bingie, including running surveys, and started with kids as young as fourteen and people as old as 70. How did you come up with the idea for the company?

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 15, 2015

People care about salving their pain, not the origin, design and composition of the painkiller. In describing effective writing, the best-selling author Stephen King notes that, “Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word.” Stephen King Startup Tip.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Harris writes: “The figures, dating back to 2016, paint a picture of a company desperate to meet over-ambitious autonomy targets and one that is willing to spend freely, even recklessly, to get there. That chatter was confirmed by a new job listing for an autonomous vehicles “market specialist” based in Austin.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Are you cynical about their chances in the market just because they seem to be hot in the press and that bugs you? Albert Wenger from Union Square Ventures wrote a great post the other day that reminded me I’ve been meaning to write about this topic. It’s just a fad propped up by the Silicon Valley elite marketing machine.”

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

Our products are designed for use by warehouse workers, retail staff, employees in manufacturing plants, by airlines, any place where people are moving boxes, picking and placing, shipping products, or getting things ready for pickup. So, I switched to a degree in business and marketing. What's your product, and what is it used for?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business.

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. He ended up building a digital agency that did everything from custom apps and web development to branding and digital marketing. San Francisco was designed to be a hub for all things VR and AR to legitimize the industry and give it a home,” he said.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 25, 2011

Before beginning customer success stories or case studies with a new client, I ask a LOT of questions of my marketing contacts - well before ever talking to one of their happy customers. Then, whether you're a writer or marketer, make sure those points get into every story. Going into projects, I want to understand.

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